title: Model for investigating the benefits of clinical supervision in psychiatric nursing: a survey study.
abstract: The objective of this study was to test a model for analysing the possible benefits of clinical supervision. The model suggested a pathway from participation to effectiveness to benefits of clinical supervision, and included possible influences of individual and workplace factors. The study sample was 136 nursing staff members in permanent employment on nine general psychiatric wards and at four community mental health centres at a Danish psychiatric university hospital. Data were collected by means of a set of questionnaires. Participation in clinical supervision was associated with the effectiveness of clinical supervision, as measured by the Manchester Clinical Supervision Scale (MCSS). Furthermore, MCSS scores were associated with benefits, such as increased job satisfaction, vitality, rational coping and less stress, emotional exhaustion, and depersonalization. Multivariate analyses indicated that certain individual and workplace factors were related to subscales of the MCSS, as well as some of the benefits. The study supported the suggested model, but methodological limitations apply.
authors.affiliation: Psychiatric Department North, Aarhus University Hospital, Risskov, Denmark. henrik@gonge.dk
authors.forename: Henrik
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Gonge
authors.forename: Niels
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Buus
mesh_terms: D003156:Community Mental Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research / Q000379:methods*; D009745:Nursing, Supervisory / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D017132:Workplace / Q000458:organization & administration